10th of march - 9.00 am - 16.00 pm
Chairperson is Inga Lilly Brynjólfsdóttir, President of BRCA Iceland
Speakers:
9.30 Opening
- Anna Margrét Bjarnadóttir, MA. and the Conference Organizer
- Keynote Speaker: Sue Friedman, Executive Director, Force: “Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered”-
- Kristján Skúli Ásgeirsson, Nottingham Breast Institute og Brjóstamiðstöðin/Klíníkin Ármúla
- Kristín Hannesdóttir PhD student and her daughter Melkorka María Brynjarsdóttir
- Dr. Kári Stefánsson, Executive Director, Decode
- Vigdís Stefánsdóttir, Genetic Counsellor at Landspitali, MSc and PhD Student in Genetic Counselling
- Karen Malkin Lazarovitz, founder of BRCA Sisterhood
- Óskar Þór Jóhannsson, MD. PhD, Landspitali / University Hospital
- Alan M. Blassberg: Director of the film “Pink & Blue” - Colors of Hereditary Cancer
12.45 Lunch Break
13.30 Premier of the Documentaries: “Pink & Blue - Colors of Hereditary Cancer”
Panel Discussions
All the speakers and Jón Jóhannes Jónsson, Chief of Genetics in Iceland
Moderator: Hulda Bjarnadóttir mediaperson and BRCA carrier
16.00 End of Conference – Light Refreshments
Date: Saturday March 10, 2018
Venue: Veröld – Vigdís House at Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages at the University of Iceland
Startes at 9.00 AM
Lunch and light refreshments included
Cost: 2000 ISK
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